Check-holder.



J. W. RICHARDS.

CHECK HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-24,1917.

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CHECK-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 191 8.

Application filed January 24, 1917. Serial No. 144,230.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Logmont, in the county of Bell and State of Kentucky, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Check-Holders, of which thefOllOWiIlg is a specification.

This invention relates to a check holder and more particularly to aholder for the checks attached by miners to the cars used to convey coalfrom the mine galleries to the tipple.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a holder for checks ofthis character which may be arranged within and connected with thebottom of a car for this purpose and is so constructed that a checkplaced therein before the car is loaded cannot be removed from theholder until the 'car is dumped, thus preventing the loss of the checks,or the purloining of the same during the transportation of the coal.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novelcombination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafterdescribed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, although no restriction is necessarily made to theprecise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations,and modifications, within the scope of the claims may be resorted towhen desired. I

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view showing the improved check holder applied to a miningcar.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the check carryin arm in raised position.

Tig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the holder.

Fig. 4 is a cross section on the line 4.1 of Fig. 2.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views in the drawing.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the letter A designates a car ofthe type commonly used to convey coal from the mine galleries to thetipple and having ar ranged within and connected to the bottom thereof,the improved check holder 6.

The check holder 6 is provided with an attaching plate 7 formed from ansuitable material and connected with the .ottom. of

the car A by means of fastening elements 8, such as bolts, or the like,said attaching member having a beveled end 9 and is further provided inits upper face with a longitudinally extending recess 10 provided at oneend with an upwardly and inwardly curved portion 11, and at its otherend With a reduced extension 12, said extension opening out at one endof the plate 7 The bottom wall of the recess 10 has formed therein asocket 13.

A check carrying arm 14.- to be received in the recess 10 is providedwith a rounded end 15 to extend beneath the curved end Wall of therecess 10 and is provided at its other end with a reduced portion 16extending within the reduced portion 12' of the recess and serving as anactuating handle by means of which the check carrying arm may be turnedabout its pivotal connection 17 with the attaching member, said turningmovement of the check carrying arm bemg limited by an edge 18 of therounded end of the recess 10.

The check carrying arm 14: has formed therein a recess 19, which whenthe arm is received in the recess 10 when in its lowered positionregisters with the socket 13 in the attaching member 7 V A pair ofresilient plates 21 are arranged upon opposite sides of the recess 19and connected with the check carrying arm 14 in any suitable manner,each of said plates being provided with a finger 22 extendin within therecess 19, so that'when a check 23 is inserted within the recess 19,, itwill be engaged by the fingers 22 and held therein.

When the improved check holder has been applied to a car as shown inFig.1 in the drawing and the car is to be filled with coal, the minerfilling the car raises the check carrying arm 14 and inserts the check23 in the slot 19 between the fingers 22, after which the arm is againlowered and received in the recess 10 and the car filled.

When the car reaches the tipple and is dumped, the check may be removedfrom the holder by raising the arm 14 and releasing the check fromengagement with the fingers 22, thus insuring the safe passage of thecheck from the galleries to the tipple.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1., In a device of the class described, a

plate having a beveled end and a recess in its top extendinglongitudinally thereof, said recess having upwardly and inwardly curvedwall at one end thereof and a re duced extension at its opposite endopening out through an end of said plate, a check carrying armswingingly mounted in said recess having a round end extending beneaththe curved end wall of said recess, and an operating handle on said arlnadapted to be received in said extension.

2. In a device of the class described, an

attaching plate having a longitudinally extending recess in the topthereof and a socket opening out through the bottom of said recess, anarm in said recess pivotally connected adjacent one end thereof withsaid plate having a recess therein registering with the socket in saidplate, and plates on said arms having clamping hinges thereon extendingwithin the recess in said arm.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOHN WILL RICHARDS.

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